Over 1,300 Chinese Buddhists Attend Teachings in Dharamsala

His Holiness the Dalai Lama giving ordination
vows in Dharamsala, India, on 1 October 2010.
Forty-six Taiwanese, sixteen Tibetan and one
Korean took part in the ordination ceremony/Photo:OHHDL

Dharamshala: Around 5,000 Buddhist followers from
57 countries, including over 1,300 Chinese
Buddhists from Taiwan are attending a four-day
discourse of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the
main temple in Dharamsala. The teaching began
this morning and go on until 7 October.

His Holiness will preach Nagarjuna's The
Fundamental Wisdom Treatise on the Middle Way
(uma tsawai sherab), Atisha's Lama for the Path
to Enlightenment (jangchup lamdron), Tsongkhapa's
In Praise of Dependent Origination (tendrel
toepa) & Tsongkhapa's Concise Stages for the Path
to Enlightenment (lamrim dudon).

In his introductory address, His Holiness spoke
about how to remove three negative human
afflictions and to cultivate positive motivation
to serve the well-being of others.